apoplexn.
archaic.
a. = apoplexy n.
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?1537 T. Elyot Castell of Helthe ii. xxx. f. 47 Immoderate slepe maketh the body apt unto palseys, apoplexis, fallynge sycknes.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. iv. sig. C2 How do's his Apoplexe ? View more context for this quotation
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. vi. 209 An Apoplex [may] leave neither Sense, nor Understanding, no nor Life.
1790 S. T. Coleridge Happiness I. 34 Apoplex of heavy head That surely aims his dart of lead.
b. figurative.
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1688 J. Dryden Britannia Rediviva 10 And here the Sons of God are petrify'd with Woe; An Appoplex of Grief.
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apoplexv.
archaic.
To strike with apoplexy, paralyze, benumb.
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1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 70 + 3 Sure that sence Is appoplext.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 160 Finding her husband..apoplext in all his limbes.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον viii. 403 To apoplex all the vitall spirits.
1813 Ld. Byron Let. in Wks. (1832) II. 269 If suddenly apoplexed, would he rest in his grave?
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